MUNGO PARK. Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, fait entre - Lot 178

MUNGO PARK. Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, fait entre 1795, 1796 et 1797, par M. Mungo Park, envoyé par la société d'Afrique établie à Londres; avec des éclaircissements sur la géographie de l'intérieur de l'Afrique par le Major Rennell. Translated from the English second edition. Paris, Dentu - Carteret, An VIII. 1799. 2 vol. in-8. Paperback, pink paper covers, label partly faded on spine. A medallion portrait-frontispiece of the author by N. Courbe, three folding maps, 3 views and 2 botanical plates. ( map of Mr. Mungo Park's route from the Gambia to the Niger, a map of compass variations in the seas around Africa, a map of new discoveries in North Africa). With a catalog of books to be found at Dentu, bound between pages X and XI of the preface. With a dictionary of the Mandinka language, starting on page 353 of Volume II. Leaves slightly creased in the margins, covers short of margins, angular lack to the false title of volume I. Also included: BUTTIKOFER, J. Reisebilder aus Liberia. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1890. 2 vol. in-8. Half basane with corners, black calf titles and giblets. Numerous illustrations, maps and folding map. Rubbing to binding.